Wei Cen rode a big black horse to the south and galloped ten miles in succession, and soon had a long waiting round with several officials and their own personal guards in a long pavilion, and then a group of men and horses drove day and night for two days in a row, and went straight to the road of more than 300 miles, reaching the territory of Xuanzhou.

The few officials who accompanied him to Jiuhua Mountain were naturally the core members of Feng Yanji's party, and the one with the highest rank was Li Zhenggu, the secretary of the military department.

This person can be described as a model of "poor students", Zheng'er Bajing Jinshi was born, Yu Liezu was the first generation of courtiers in the Southern Tang Dynasty, at that time, it was the founding of the country, and it was a good time to show his talents, but unfortunately he had a good talent to learn, and his character was clumsy and greedy for money and power, but how could he rub the sand into the eyes of Li Yu, the ancestor of Tang Liezu, who finally created a foundation?

The high-profile and arrogant Li Zhenggu was soon caught in an action to clarify the rule of officials carried out by the Liezu Dynasty, and was demoted back to his hometown Wanzai Gaocheng (now Wanzai County, Yichun City, Jiangxi Province) as a petty official, until the current emperor Li Jing ascended the throne, Li Zhenggu saw the hope of a comeback, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to find a way through his former colleagues, and finally somehow climbed to Feng Yanji, the minister of power, and thus began his second spring.

In the nine years of Baoda, Xu Shi won the favor of Feng Yanji for many years, and Li Zhenggu finally got a good opportunity to turn over, and was reinstated by the imperial court and served as the assassin of Yuanzhou.

Yuanzhou's status is located on the border between the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Chu State, and the border between the two countries is not only heavily guarded, but also the main route for merchants to come and go, and naturally there is no shortage of bandits, which is also a headache for the imperial court, but the means taken are still the traditional way - to counter violence with violence.

Yuanzhou has successively replaced 29 assassins, all of whom are martial artists, but it is difficult for the local army to play a role if they are lazy and sloppy, and sometimes they even become accomplices of the rogue profiteers, which makes the people of Yuanzhou miserable, and later the imperial court almost couldn't even collect taxes.

In this troubled era of advocating force, even martial artists can't solve the problem, how can a literati who only understands poetry, books, etiquette and music change the status quo? At that time, most people in the government and the opposition were waiting to see Li Zhenggu's jokes, and even Feng Yanji deliberately threw a tricky place to him with the intention of trying it, but he didn't pay much attention to him.

But Li Zhenggu didn't think so, he finally seized an opportunity to make a comeback, how could he give up easily? As the saying goes, his arsenic, my honey. This time, Li Zhenggu really worked hard to govern the place, and soon discovered the root of the problem, which is still the collusion between officials and businessmen and the unruly people's hearts.

According to historical records, after Li Zhenggu took office, he "respected Confucianism and adorned the rule of officials, erected Confucian temples, prepared sacrificial vessels, and sang strings and songs", and adopted extremely gentle and gentle means to clean up people's hearts first, so that the people of Yuanzhou could pick up the Confucian tradition that had been interrupted for decades, and also uphold a selfless attitude in handling official affairs...... Of course, it will soon be offended to offend those who should be offended and those who should not be offended.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, the consequences can be imagined, not to mention whether Yuan Zhou is governed properly, it is only a matter of time before Li Zhenggu's life can be saved, and at the critical moment, God finally took care of Li Zhenggu once. The state of Chu was finally on the verge of collapse because of his brother's wall, and the emperor Li Jing ordered Bian Hao to lead the army to destroy Chu, and marched from Yuanzhou, as soon as the central forbidden army with strict military discipline and superior combat power arrived, Li Zhenggu completely turned over......

With the might of the army of Bian Hao, after Li Zhenggu cleaned up the chaotic situation in Yuanzhou, he immediately went to the imperial court, showed his merits, and paid the taxes of Yuanzhou for several years to the imperial court for the first time, which made the emperor Li Jing and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all admired, and the source of these taxes, natural mother is undoubted, only a small part was seized from the Liukou, and most of them were looted from the unarmed people.

Li Jinglong's heart was very happy, not only ordered Li Zhenggu to be praised, and promoted him to be the secretary of the military department, but also gave heavy grace, changing Li Zhenggu's hometown "Gaohou Township" to "Nostalgic Township", "Gaochengli" to "Pregnant Xiuli", Li Shangshu, who respected the ancient and handsome, was born out of nowhere, and after his value rose, he was finally able to enter Feng Yanji's eyes, and in less than half a year, he became the "confidant" that Feng Yanji often missed.

Although the privy deputy Wei Cen, as the person with the highest rank among the party members, has temporarily become the backbone of Feng Yanji's party, there are always some ambitious people who have taken the opportunity to move, including Li Zhenggu, who is in charge of the military department.

Li Zhenggu and Wei Cen have never dealt with each other since they met, and the Privy Council where they work is also an extremely awkward relationship with the Ministry of War.

As an old-qualified military management agency of the imperial court, it can be traced back to the "five-soldier system" of the Cao Wei period of the Three Kingdoms, but it can only manage the local armies with insufficient combat effectiveness, such as the box army and the militia, plus some logistics support, surveying and mapping and other affairs, and it is completely impossible to command operations and transfer troops, and it can be said that the sense of existence is extremely low.

The Privy Council of the Southern Tang Dynasty was not only in charge of important military affairs, but also had personnel powers, recruitment powers, troop transfer powers, etc., which can be described as quite a department with real power, which is in stark contrast to the virtual power of the Ministry of War.

Li Zhenggu, who finally became the secretary of the military department, has tasted the taste of power, as the saying goes, people go to high places, and water flows to low places. He and Wei Cen are both Feng Yanji's guests, and they are also the "seniors" of the Liezu Dynasty, how can they not yearn for a high-ranking and powerful Privy Council?

Although Chen Jue's power after the Northern Expedition was much worse than before, how could his influence over the government and the opposition be easily shaken? Li Zhenggu naturally didn't dare to think about it, but he had always had some secret thoughts about Wei Cen's position as the privy deputy envoy.

When Wei Cen proposed to go to Jiuhua Mountain to move the rescue troops, Li Zhenggu's eyes immediately lit up, and he soon thought of the one who lived in seclusion in Jiuhua Mountain, the behind-the-scenes giant who had a deep relationship with Feng Yanji and Chen Jue, and perhaps it was the perfect time for him to score three times......

At this time, when they had just arrived in Xuanzhou, several officials and their respective entourage guards were all mixed together.

Because of Feng Yanji's thoughts, everyone was already anxious along the way, but Li Zhenggu still had thoughts, and he always chatted with Wei Cen for a few words. There were probably some mocking hints hidden in the words, but Wei Cen always looked indifferent, did not give a positive response, and occasionally only used some perfunctory words such as urgency, which seemed that Li Zhenggu was a little self-deprecating.

As a result, Li Zhenggu never said a word to Wei Cen again, and soon Li Zhenggu's men and horses naturally distanced themselves from the large army, and then one or two officials' teams fell behind one after another.

Among the several officials who originally made this trip, in addition to Li Zhenggu of the Ministry of War, there were also important ministers of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and the Imperial Historical Tower, and the total number of guards was not less than 100 people, and less than two hours after entering the territory of Xuanzhou, the team that followed Wei Cen was inexplicably only more than ten of his own personal guards.

Among them, there was a household servant named Liu Zijing, who was originally a close personal friend with Wei Cen, but now, somehow, as if discussing with other officials as if to isolate Wei Cen, he suddenly slowed down on the way forward, and finally disappeared without even a figure.

Wei Cen doesn't care, after being immersed in the court for so many years, he is destined to be unable to form a so-called true friendship with these ministers with all their own ghosts, it is probably just a benefit, if it is not for the sake of Feng Yanji, how can he walk with them? At present, it is best not to interfere with each other, and it is best for everyone's well water not to interfere with river water. When they arrived at Jiuhua Mountain, in front of that master, how could they compare with the power of the privy deputy envoy who held great power?

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